it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott)

@m57lyra.bsky.social

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Writer and illustrator, lover of juicy infographics and editorial illustrations based in the beautiful, hyper-green PNW! Degree in physics, decades in engineering. I ❤️ science! Working on my first book…

Long tails, and ears for hats!
The Snail Car at Maker Faire 2015.
a scruffy pup sleeping with his legs sticking out straight up in the air. I don’t know how he can be this relaxed and yet stiff-legged at the same time.
Lucy sits in front of the TV and says, “Christ, what an asshole.”
A screen cap of the Costco same-day shopping app with a suggested search term “st patricks” and the item is lucky charms cereal
A snowy day in the PNW as seen through front windows.
A scruffy puppy lying chill in a chair with a foot straight up in the air.
Bottle neck with label that says “Egg Nog / Lait de Poule”
A short sleeve yoke sweater in self-striping blues and browns, still on the needles just waiting to bind the sleeves off.
A finished sock on a left leg. Sock comes half way up shin, and has some lacey-type features and uses self-striping 4-ply sock yarn from WYS in the Blue Lagoon colorway. I have no idea what the contrasting yarn was.
Top down view of sock made from self-striping WYS Signature 4-ply in Blue Lagoon and a contrasting toe/heel yarn, showing the lace-ish work.
A tan colored pup settled down for the night with the two toys that wore him out: a stuffed costco hotdog and an alien eyeball thing.
Rule 9.11.2 regarding the use of LLMs states: Works that used LLMs at any point during the writing process must disclose this upon acceptance of the nomination, and those works will be disqualified.
crown of tan knitted hat, with 8 sections of 14 stitches each, using alternating decrease rows and knit rows, with simple k2togs for decreases.
An octopus-shaped menorah, but it has 9 arms so it’s a kraken!
A dude hat with 1:1 ribbing in the mostly proper colors (technically the charcoal should be a bit more brown but contrast-wise, it’s totally on point), about two thirds the way through the color work, being worked in the round.
An ad from Home Depot for a gynecological exam table.
A sleepy puppy under the flowery covers on white sheets with yellow stripes near yellow bed pillows on a very early on a chilly, rainy evening.
A very floofy blonde terrier asleep on a lap.
A picture of the back of a kitchen cabinet and the wall behind it cut out to access pipes, which my insurance company says is a “yearly maintenance issue.”
Pink aurora with clouds.
Four 16oz bottles of shrub, 2 each Blood Orange Ginger & Old Bay (in clear bottles), and Cranberry & Pine Needle (in brown bottles). One Cranberry bottle is only 1/2 full, so I’ll need to adjust for better yield next time.
Avery small emerald crab, about an inch across, hanging out in the “palm” of a finger leather coral.
Backseat console that looks like Marvin the Paranoid Android from the BBC series’s head.
Medium-sized duckies under their heat lamp
We’ll be back (You know the tune!) We say The price of your love's not a price that we’re willing to pay You cry To your ICE, which you hurl at the crowds when you see us go by Why so sad? Remember, you have the House and the Senate and Judiciary Now, you're making us mad Remember, despite your stable genius, you’ve tanked the economy We’ll be back, soon, you'll see You'll remember that you work for us We’ll be back, time will tell We’ll remember that you served yourself Oceans rise, empires fall Your name’s still in the Epstein files And when push comes to shove It’s the Constitution that makes the Rule of Law Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da Da-da, dat, dat, da-ya-da Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da Da-da, dat, dat, da-ya Your popularity is waning, and you can't go on You're constantly complainin' even after you won And no, don't change the subject We’re have rights like Amendment 1 We’re a free, empowered people Not loyal, royal subjects Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever We’ll be back like before We will keep our rights and laugh at you more When you rant, to get your way You run to SCOTUS like a whiny babe When you're gone, we'll go mad You can’t imagine the parties that we’ll have 'Cause when push comes to shove You’re a tyrant and we’ll rise above Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da Da-da, dat, dat, da-ya-da Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da Da-da, dat- everybody! Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da Da-da, dat, dat, da-ya-da Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da Da-da-da, dat, da-ya-da-ah
MetaAI rewrote my original text (“What if OpenAI went belly-up? I would party like it’s 19freaking99.”) as “What if OpenAl reached new heights? I would celebrate like it's an incredible new beginning.”
An emerald crab with night lighting snacking on some algae.
Yard sign saying, “Presidents are temporary/ Wu-Tang is forever.”
A red long-necked dino peeking out from under a variegated leaf, with a gnome and a flamingo in the background.
One vase of semi-cactus peach and yellow dahlias and regular pink dahlias, and a small deep magenta dahlia with white tips in a bud vase
This is the stupidest timeline.
Scalziiiiiiiiiii!
An intershot shot of the glorious PNW fiber arts haven that is The Websters in Ashland, OR
MW dictionary definition 3 of “Occupation” 3 a : the act or process of taking possession of a place or area : SEIZURE Spain's occupation of the island b : the holding and control of an area by a foreign military force the Roman occupation of Britain c : the military force occupying a country or the policies carried out by it The occupation addressed the concerns of the local population.
Walking street by the Public Market Center sign.
Battery brand: “Bursto”
Fluffy dog sits on his mom’s head, demonstrating he makes a better door than a window.
Sleepy puppy
14 mutant summer squash and two normies.
snaggletooth puppy
An anthropomorphized feminine hygiene product dispenser
A sheet pan holding two zukes sliced lengthwise, and two breaded and overstuffed chicken breasts.
Part of my garden, framed so that the tomatoes, some onions, the cucumbers, Swiss chard, rhubarb, squash, beans, asparagus, and some strawberries are visible.
12lbs of blueberries in 3 buckets surrounded by 6 legs and feet.
Picture of a very silly pupper under a couch trying to not have the zoomies.
The mountain is out! Water shot.
Silly pupper laying on couch with one foot on the back
Still from Murderbot with Murderbot carrying injured crew member.
Ricky Bobby faces off with Jean Girard
My dog of leisure, laying on me (actually on the heating pad on me), with his paws draped across my face and his head on the arm of the couch looking out the window
4.5 lbs of rhubarb stalks
a glass vase I got at a farmers market glassmaker’s seconds stand filled with 4 different peonies from very dark pink to white, and leaves from four different hosta plants.
a photo showing about 1/4th side of my biggest rhubarb plant, which is about 5’ tall at this point thanks to branching, and a leaf with hand for scale that is about 3 hands deep and 4-1/2 hands wide
Papa bird dropping off worms to mom and presumably babies (black-capped chickadees)
Final Notice: Enforcement will begin after May 18st As of today, your tolls are still unpaid. If you still don't pay your tolls tomorrow, you will face the following consequences: The DMV will suspend your vehicle
A still of Frank the rabbit in Donnie Darko.
Bush II I am the decider meme
A picture of a very famous sweater. If you don’t like it, that’s just like, your opinion, man.
A stack of rhubarb stalks with a knife for scale, each about 4 steak knives long. Leaves are as big as seat cushions. This variety is red only toward the bottom.